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Nuclear Fission Simulation

A PhET simulation showing nuclear fission. Companion activities are linked from the simulation page.
Subject: Environmental Science:Energy:Nuclear Energy, Physics:Modern Physics:Nuclear Physics
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Audio/Visual:Animations/Video, Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Tools

Tsunamis Database

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
The tsunamis database allows users to find and compare tsunamis that have struck across the world based on their location, date, intensity, and the number of lives they have claimed
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Hazards, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Coastal Hazards
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Tools

Earthquakes Database

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
The NGDC database allow users to find and compare significant or major earthquakes by Magnitude, Year, Injuries, Death Count, and Damage.
Subject: Geoscience, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Tools

NYC DOITT - Services: GIS

The mission of Citywide GIS is to develop, support and host an accurate digital map and geo-referenced data along with associated tools and applications that allow all City agencies to use the ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Tools

BYTES of the BIG APPLE

BYTES of the BIG APPLE is a family of software, data and geographic base map files for the City of New York.
Subject: Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Tools

The Gapminder World 2006

Gapminder Foundation
Gapminder is a non-profit venture developing information technology for provision of free statistics in new visual and animated ways. Goal: enable you to make sense of the world by having fun with ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Human Population, Mathematics:Statistics:Data Presentation:Multivariate Quantitative Relationships:Correlation, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Mathematics:Statistics:Data Presentation, Data Presentation:Multivariate Categorical Relationships:Graphical Displays, Mathematics:Statistics, Environmental Science:Human Population:Developing/Developed Countries, Geography:Human/Cultural, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Maps, Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Tools, Audio/Visual:Animations/Video

Discover Our Earth

The Discover Our Earth collection is designed to enhance learning of Earth Science topics including earthquakes, volcanoes, topography, plate tectonics and sea level change. Discover our Earth is a ...
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology, Tectonics, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Volcanism, Floods/Fluvial Processes, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations, Activities, Audio/Visual:Maps, Animations/Video, Computer Applications, Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Tools

BASINS: Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources

BASINS is a multipurpose environmental analysis system for use by regional, state, and local agencies in performing watershed and water quality based studies. This new software makes it possible to ...
Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water and society, policy, and management, Groundwater modeling, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Mineralogy:Environmental Mineralogy, Geoscience:Hydrology, Biology, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Water Quality and Quantity:Non-Point Source Pollution, Point Source Pollution, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Decision-Making
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Tools, Computer Applications, Datasets and Tools:Datasets

BASINS: Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources

BASINS is a multipurpose environmental analysis system for use by regional, state, and local agencies in performing watershed and water quality based studies. This new software makes it possible to ...
Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water and society, policy, and management, Groundwater modeling, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Mineralogy:Environmental Mineralogy, Geoscience:Hydrology, Biology, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Water Quality and Quantity:Non-Point Source Pollution, Point Source Pollution, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Decision-Making
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Tools, Computer Applications, Datasets and Tools:Datasets

Quantitative Environmental Learning Project

Joseph Hull, Greg Langkamp
This web site provides resources to integrate math and environmental science using real environmental data. The site features many data sets which are ideally suited for use as a classroom exercise. ...
Subject: Geoscience:Geology, Hydrology, Biology, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Biogeochemical cycling, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science, Atmospheric Science:Climatology
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Datasets with Tools, Tools, Datasets